On Oct 8, 9:16 pm, Frnak McKenney wrote:
I'm in Richmond, Virginia and I'm trying to noticeably improve my
reception of WWV's 10MHz signal from Fort Collins, Colorado. ...

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:22:07 GMT, Rick wrote:
I am in New Jersey. Propagation from Colorado to here is probably
similar to Virginia.

This morning, Tues, 10/9, I listened to WWV on 10 MHz with the 4
antennas I have at my disposal to see what kind of signal level I
get.

My antennas are 80 meter and 40 meter dipoles, a 20 meter yagi and a
30 meter dipole, all at about 50 feet.

On the first 3 antennas WWV runs about S6-9, and on the 30 meter
dipole it is 10-20 db over 9.

This evening, 6 pm, the first 3 antennas haul WWV in at S9 and the
30 m dipole has it at a rock solid 30 over.

So I agree with the advice you got to string up some kind of dipole
and throw out that loop, there is plenty of signal, you just have to
go get it.

Okay, Rick, you've convinced me. The heck with Oklahoma! (Sorry,
MH.) I'm running my antenna line to New Jersey! grin!

If I've sounded reluctant to put an antenna up in the attic, it's
partly that I'm reluctant to drill holes through walls and ceilings
to run the antenna cable without at least _some_ assurance that the
results would be worth it... and partly that I'm just reluctant to
drill holes, spackle, and paint. I suppose I could run the line
through the attic hatch door rim and down the hallway ceiling...

PS may I throw in a little commercial for my pet peeve? As you read
this did you notice that I did not include any text from previous
posts? Did you miss it?

Well, yes. The original post was a bit long and should have been
trimmed as appropriate, but a couple of lines (see above) would have
made things a little clearer to some poor soul who ran across the
post in isolation.

In any case, thanks for the feedback. Let's see... 300 miles of
10-Base2 cable...


Frank
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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's,
if we are always criticizing trivial actions -- which often are
not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through
our ignorance of their motives..." -- Teresa of Avila
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